Incredible, really. As was the fact Swansea City sat atop the Premier League after goals from Angel Rangel, Michu and Danny Graham confirmed a second successive victory.

The club that nine years ago looked up at 91 clubs, standing above them all, albeit for a few hours before Chelsea’s win over Newcastle.

Of course, football is littered with stories of teams that have led tables at one premature point only to crash down to earth; Wolves last year a sobering example.

Most will know it is far too early in a season where survival remains the aim for crowing and congratulations. Certainly Laudrup is among them.

But it is difficult for anyone to deny the excitement about this team after a performance that blew away both West Ham United and much of those pre-season fears.

“It was perhaps impossible to ask for better,” said Laudrup of his two opening victories, this triumph coming after the 5-0 first-day drubbing of QPR. “We have six points, eight goals and none against so that’s fantastic. You have to enjoy the moment because we know things will not always be like that.

“I said last week there will be bad days, bad weeks and even a bad month.

“But what you’ve got, nobody can take it away from you. It’s already there.”

Indeed. Six points in the bag, 34 to go you could suggest.

But while he refuses to get carried away, those who watch will do should displays like this be repeated.

Although given a helping hand when Juusi Jaaskelainen’s elbow ensured Angel Rangel’s cross-shot found the net, and again when James Collins’ backpass invited Michu to capitalise, Swansea were excellent and deserved the comfort of the third when Graham scored not long after the hour mark.

They thrived in the tweaked system Laudrup has introduced, Nathan Dyer superb and Wayne Routledge looking like the player he hinted at when he first broke through at Crystal Palace.

And while the team’s greater urge to attack and be more impatient while passing their way to the final third gave the impression of a little less control in the opening half, the possession was assured as it ever was come the latter stages.

Yes there was a greater directness about Swansea as illustrated by their first goal as Michu drove from deep before a tucked-in Dyer found Rangel on the overlap.

But the more things change, the more they stay the same as Routledge and Michu’s pressing nudged Collins into a dreadfully short pass to Jaaskelainen which the Spaniard gobbled up. If he wasn’t in every Fantasy Football side before his third goal of the season, the deft finish will ensure he is now.

Some will argue that Swansea did not create much early on before their goals were gifted, but the fact is that they did not need to once ahead.

Besides, then there was the passing moves of the second-half that were as good as anything seen last term, George McCartney’s block on Routledge after he merrily skipped away from Collins stopping a 44-pass move becoming a goal to dream of.

The third came soon after that, another stretching passing move, this time finished when Routledge’s instinctive diagonal run sliced the Hammers open at the back and allowed him to cross for Graham.

In return, they dealt with the set-piece after set-piece that came their way as the Hammers resorted to the physical and the practical. Michel Vorm’s saves and defensive alertness was needed, but the fact was West Ham were poor as much as they were made to look poor.

All in all, if Sam Allardyce’s claims last season that West Ham played football like Swansea were ridiculous then, they appear plain deluded now. The self-styled academy of football well and truly schooled by a side who you feel could actually get better, even if they don’t better the scorelines.

“Every player, manager has some doubts when new season starts,” said Laudrup on what he had expected of the Premier League. “I knew after the pre-season what I had but of course I didn’t know the other teams so you never know. It’s very easy to stand here after two games and six points and say ‘that’s great’ but there is a long way to go and there are things we need to improve.

“Last week we defended too deep. Today we gave away too many free kicks and corners and one day that will cost us.

“Nearly all the teams are stronger than us so we have to remember to keep the ball in certain moments. It sounds a little silly but there is only one ball and if we have it they can’t have it.”

Not silly at all to those watching, with Leon Britton majestic at underpinning such possession play and record signing Ki Sung-Yueng also ready to be brought into the midfield mix.

Perhaps a new wideman too, although wideman gives a false impression of the role that Dyer and Routledge excelled in as they pushed in and in turn allowed Rangel and Neil Taylor to push on.

Much work is still to do, much sterner tests to come.

But right now I appears all so easy this British football lark. Laudrup even got the hang of giving the crowd a wave when the Liberty sang for it, even if did need a prompt from mainstay Alan Curtis.

“Football, especially for the fans, is about dreams and emotions,’’ said Laudrup, as those same supporters chanted about being top of the league. “For those of us on the side, or on the pitch, there’s emotion but we can’t permit ourselves to dream. We have to live with reality and our next game.”

The way they are winning admirers, the games can’t come fast enough for Swansea City.